[1] [2] But to the purpose. Perceiuing himselfe now de|stitute of his best fréends, of whom diuerse remained prisoners with the French king (being taken at the battell of Bouins) he thought good to agrée with king Philip for this present, by way of taking some truce, which by mediation of ambassadours riding to and fro betwixt them,A truce taken betwixt the two kings of England & France. was at length accorded to endure for fiue yeares, and to begin at Easter, in the yeare of our Lord, 1215. After this, about the 19 daie of October he returned into England, to appease cer|teine tumults which began alreadie to shoot out buds of some new ciuill dissention. And suerlie the same spred abroad their blossoms so freshlie, that the fruit was knit before the growth by anie timelie prouisi|on could be hindered. For the people being set on by diuerse of the superiours of both sorts, finding them|selues gréeued that the king kept not promise in re|storing the ancient lawes of S. Edward, determi|ned from thencefoorth to vse force, since by request he might not preuaile. To appease this furie of the peo|ple, not onlie policie but power also was required, for the people vndertaking an euill enterprise, speci|allie raising a tumult or ioining in a conspiracie are as hardlie suppressed and vanquished as Hydra the monster hauing manie: heads and therefore it is well said, that

—comes est discordia vulgi,

Námque à turbando nomen sibi turba recepit.